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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:36:54 +0000
After years of lingering questions about Skype’s commitment to protecting user data, it will soon offer end-to-end encryption to its 300 million monthly users.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:19:31 +0000
The House of Representatives Thursday strengthened spying powers authorized under Section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 05:18:00 -0800
The headlong race to cover the Meltdown/Spectre debacle has claimed another victim. In a surprising move, Intel has raised a red flag about some of its firmware patches. What should you do? Wait.
Yesterday, Intel executive VP Navin Shenoy posted on the company blog:
We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates. Specifically, these systems are running Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs for both client and data center. We are working quickly with these customers to understand, diagnose and address this reboot issue. If this requires a revised firmware update from Intel, we will distribute that update through the normal channels.
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:30:00 +0000
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| At CES this week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced WPA3, the newest security protocol for Wi-Fi devices. WPA3 includes four new security capabilities and is the most significant upgrade to Wi-Fi security since 2004. Categories: Tags: CESIoT securityWi-Fiwifi allianceWPA3 |
The post WPA3 will secure Wi-Fi connections in four significant ways in 2018 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:43:44 +0000
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| A 28-year-old Ohio programmer is charged with creating the Fruitfly malware to spy on thousands of unsuspecting victims and produce child pornography. Categories: Tags: child pornographyfruitflyfruitfly creator indictedmalware |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:18:19 +0000
In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss Olympic phishing, medical records hacked, police giving away infected USB drives and more.
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Credit to Author: Cara West-Wainwright| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:09:44 +0000
Last week, three interesting vulnerabilities popped up on the news and security feeds. Researchers disclosed CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715, collectively known as Spectre, and CVE-2017-5754, known as Meltdown. These vulnerabilities take advantage of “speculative execution” of instructions performed by many modern microprocessors and can potentially allow an unprivileged attacker to read privileged memory allocated to the…